At long last, the Volume 3 cover art is ready to debut! Here we have the trio of baddies — Mizumi, Drumlin and Moulin of the Moraine Kingdom.
If the Return to Labyrinth quartet were a trilogy, I guess this would make volume 3 the Empire Strikes Back edition. In addition to an icy scene, there’s also a wrinkly mystic, so I think the comparison is apt. No gas mining pimp daddies, though. Does Toby lose an arm? You’ll have to wait and see!
Now on to the contest judging! Thanks so much to everyone who entered. To the folks who nominated Jareth and Sarah (re: EVERYBODY!)… er, not so much. At least not this time. There’s still one more volume to go 
The prize has to go to “Sarah” who said:
The top right corner will have Mizumi watching over them all. I’m not sure on the colours. I’m thinking maybe a white and black colour scheme with a hint of other colours…
Several people mentioned Mizumi, but only Sarah called out her position on the page (did you raid the Hall of Prophecies?!), plus her color scheme was pretty close. In her honor, volume 4 will have a character named Sarah in it! You would think this contest was rigged! Fine, I’ll get in touch with “Sarah” about a more Gobliny name in her honor.
Thanks to Bryce and the folks at Henson for allowing me to post this preview.
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“Thomas Raith is my favourite character of the books and Bob is my favourite character of the show.” I loved Bob the talking skull because he’s soooo weird and slightly (okay, a lot) a bit of pervert. I didn’t get to see the show. I take it was good?
My parents didn’t let me watch Labyrinth when I was a really little kid because I had a hyper-active imagination and would have tried to wish my little brother away. No joke. That’s why they didn’t let me see it until I was old enough to tell the difference between a movie and real life.
The kids I was talking about are not that little… I’m not talking four years old here. And they’re allowed to watch Pirates of the Carriban. The reasons why she won’t let them watch are as I gave and I am bitter about it and there is nothing I can do about it.
‘I loved Bob the talking skull because he’s soooo weird and slightly (okay, a lot) a bit of pervert. I didn’t get to see the show. I take it was good?’
Bob of the show is not a talking skull at all. He is a ghost bound to his skull and has to obey whomever owns the skull. A deceased sorcerer named Hrothbert of Bainbridge that Harry affectionately calls Bob.
The personality is a lot like Book Bob though. He’s sarcastic, witty, and pervy but not quite as pervy as the book version. In fact he’s got a sweet, sentimental side too and a surprisingly tragic back story. I view him to be an upgrade from the book version with the added angst and physical form. An the lack of contradiction that comes from book Bob suppoedly not having a personality or free will. If Book Bob didn’t have free will why did he choose Harry over his old master at the end of Dead Beat? Also at one point the book version said ‘I’m glad I have no free will.’ And no book fans seem to question this pretty obvious continuity error. Being glad is an act of free will. Either he does or he doesn’t. Does he just pretend to have free will? Why doesn’t the book version of Harry Dresden, himself, question this? That would have come off as a huge continuity error for the show.
I like that the show version of Bob is a ghost, an actual soul, with a personality of his own. He sort of reminds me of Sir Simon de Canterville of Oscar Wilde’s the Canterville Ghost. And yes, he has his pervy moments like the book version of Bob. There’s one episode where he tells Harry (about a female client) ‘Nail the wench and let me watch.’ with this wicked smile. He’s adorable. He’s played by Broadway great Terrence Mann, the original Javert from Les Miserables (Broadway version, first and final Broadway cast), Rum Tum Tugger of the first Broadway run of Cats, Beast / Prince from the original cast of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and Clauvelin from Scarlet Pimpernel. He was also Ug in Critters and Oberon the faery king in Disney’s Gargoyles series. I saw him live on Broadway in 2001. He was playing Dr. Frank N. Futter for The Rocky Horror Show at the time and he was fantastic. He was fifty-five when they cast him as Bob for The Dresden Files but he was still very much adorable. He’s sort of like a slightly younger, white haired, (and less chubby) Tim Curry. Tim Curry is older than him by seven years but they do resemble each other.
If you want to watch The Dresden Files TV series and live in the USA I put a link into this post. The website is Hulu. It’s free and legal if you’re in the USA. It’s owned by NBC / Universal. Type in ‘The Dresden Files’ in the search and all twelve episodes should come up. I don’t recommend the one called Storm Front. That one is badly cut down from a two hour version and the forty minute one is full of continuity errors as a result. Also the forty minute cut of Storm Front lacks nearly all Bob content and I love Bob. My favourite episode, pretty obviously, is the one called What about Bob?.
For those unfamiliar with The Dresden Files, it’s about a Harry Potter style wizard living in modern day Chicago as a private investigator. The show is loosely based on the book series by Jim Butcher. It has wizards, witches, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, dragons, demons, curses, spells, ect…
I have such a crush on the show’s version of Bob.
I’ve never heard of The Dresden Files, but that’s okay, because for me there can be only one Bob, which is Bob from ReBoot. That show was such an awesome part of my childhood, it’s one of those shows that you never forget, and even years later you meet people who love it as well (Sort of like Labyrinth)
And I’m sorry, but for me there can be only one Dr. Frank. I believe that for every actor, there is one role they were born to play, and Dr. Frank’s belongs to Tim Curry. I don’t think I’d be able to watch Rocky Horror if someone else took his place.
And I have to go on record as saying it: I hate Harry Potter. The books are okay, but I just cannot understand why everyone treats them as though they’re the best thing written in the history of mankind. Sure it’s nice that it got a lot of kids interested it reading, but what do you want to bet that most of those kids are just going to read the Harry Potter books and never pick up something more interesting or challenging.
Maybe I’m just bitter because I’ve had to live through all my friends ranting and raving about how awesome the books are, while I just can’t see the appeal of books where you know exactly what’s going to happen.
I mean, if you’re reading any of the books before the 7th, how can you be held in suspense if Harry’s life is threatened, when you know for a fact that there’s atleast one more book?
As a side note: My parent’s didn’t let me watch E.T when I was little, because they were certain he’d scare me. Now that I’m older I’m glad they didn’t let me watch it, because that little bugger is freaking creepy.
Oh, don’t resent the 2001 Broadway cast of Rocky Horror on Tim Curry’s behalf. He liked Terrence Mann’s version. While Terrence Mann was Dr. Frank, Tim Curry was at Madison Square Garden playing Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. I saw them both and they saw each other. Here’s a picture. That’s Sebastian Bach as Riff Raff.
I think Harry Potter has a universal appeal because it IS the classic hero story. Fantasy, an orphaned child archiotype. Hell, he even has a mild disability to over come with his vision problem that he needs his glasses but she doesn’t dwell on it. Harry Potter is simple, straight forward but very well done and if you notice the writing style matures with each book so the child feels as if they’re growing up with Harry Potter.
Not much scared me as a child. I was fearless. I watched all the classic Horror movies before I was ten. The only thing that scared me was the dancing skeleton at the end of Count Duckula. I hated skeletons. I had nightmares about them. That fear did not go away until I grew to love the sweet, innocent and naive Jack Skellington of Nightmare before Christmas in 1993. I was eleven-years-old when I met Jack Skellington and he became a dear friend of mine.
“The kids I was talking about are not that little… I’m not talking four years old here. And they’re allowed to watch Pirates of the Caribbean.” Ouch, Mandy, I seriously feel your pain. Jack Sparrow’s comments about Will being a soprano are much more obviously suggestive than Labyrinth is as a whole. (Not to mention Lao Sang and Elizabeth’s little conversation about Calypso.) Younger kids never pick up on Jareth’s romantic interest in Sarah. (I had one friend tell me that when she was little, Jareth was the ultimate evil evil; when she got older he puzzled her because he didn’t ever seem to actually hurt Sarah; and then about sixteen she went “OMGOSH!” and became a groupie.)
“And I have to go on record as saying it: I hate Harry Potter.” Kristi O., I know what you’re saying even though I don’t entirely agree with you. I’ve read all of them, but I don’t like books six and seven. Why? I got bored knowing it would all turn out okay. Suspense is a key factor in any story, something Jake has obviously mastered.
Want….Return….to….Labyrinth….NOW!!!!!!!
Jake is out to drive me into madness.
‘He is a ghost bound to his skull and has to obey whomever owns the skull’ that sounds a lot like the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow (fantastic movie)
Harry Potter is slightly overrated, but not bad. What’s bad is the countless obsessions over Twilight, those really bug me since the books aren’t really that amazing. Anyway, I’ll always be a HP fan, and even now that the books are over I still help out in an annual local event dedicated to HP, it’s really fun, and I get to be one of the actors
ET scared the crap out of me when I was little, but Labyrinth is something I’ve been watching forever
In regard to Labyrinth, I know. I know. You’re not telling me anything I don’t know. I could argue until I’m blue in the face but there are those who treat me like I’m automatically wrong or the root of all evil and won’t listen to me.
‘that sounds a lot like the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow (fantastic movie)’
Kind of, only Bob isn’t quite as physical as the headless horesman and he actually has his head while in ghost form and isn’t Christopher Walkin.
Mostly Bob is used for magical knowledge because in his life he had been an all powerful sorcerer so he’s got a great deal of knowledge on the subject.
Oh, Twilight, now there’s a topic we can agree on. Poorly written teeny bopper tripe. I’d much prefer the earlier vampire novels of Anne Rice. Interview with the vampire (adapted into the film with Tom Cruise), The vampire Lestat (adapted into the musical Lestat), and The queen of the damned (though not that horrid film with the same name). Twilight is mindless fluff. Granted The Dresden Files books aren’t all that deep either but I’d prefer The Dresden Files to Twilight. Twlight is depthless, badly written dribble.
By the way, I loved Sleepy Hollow.
I have to say, that is the hottest Riff Raff I’ve ever seen <3 I think I’d have to watch Terrence Mann before I say anything concrete on the matter, but I know that I’m alwasy going to have a soft spot for Tim Curry.
Also, I have to say that I’ve never really thought having to wear glasses was a ‘disability’ (Or is his really bad or something, ala Velma from Scooby Doo?). Really the only time my bad eye sight gives me grief is when I have to pay 300 dollars for glasses that were probably manufactured for 20 dollars or less.
If anything I think having him wear glasses was an attempt to ground the character. Sure he’s a magical wizard, but he’s not perfect.
And I haven’t read Twilight, honestly I try and stay away from anything with Vampires. Vampires have become such a mainstream tool of the fangirl that they’ve lost all credibility with me, I think I’ll stick to Goblins.
((Urgh, I can’t wait for Jake to make a new post. Anyone else getting tired of scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page?))
Anne Rice’s vampire novels were selling before they became such trends. The Vampire Lestat is my personal favourite. He’s like the vampire equivalent of Jareth.
I have poor eyesight too. My left eye is entirely blind but the only thing it really keeps me from doing is driving (which I’ll never do), really appreciating 3D films, and reading fine print or seeing distance very well.
Harry Potter, from what I gathered in that final book, is almost entirely blind without his glasses.
As for Terrence Mann, again I have to say my favourite character he played is Bob of The Dresden Files. He’s sort of like a ghostly version of Professor Snape only with short white hair.
I think once my senior year of high school becomes a little less crazed, I’ll start on the Anne Rice books, cuz Twilight just isn’t doing it for me, and I have a feeling Lestat will be 100x better than Edward
Mandy, I hear ya on the driving thing, I really don’t like doing it, but it is sort of nice to be able to take yourself places
Sorry Jake, we must be driving you crazy with all the tangent conversations going here ^_^;
Frollo and Turpin=WIN
Well, it’s Jake’s own fault for no building us a forum. Consider this the blog version of a Sit In. We demand a forum!
And yes, Lestat is a thousand times more interesting than that two dimensional rip off. Read or watch Interview with the vampire (the film is pretty close to the book) and then read The Vampire Lestat and you’ll get his side of things. You’ll like him if you like Jareth. Just don’t heed that awful Queen of the hammed movie. It’s not Lestat’s personality or back story. It’s like a bad Dracula rip-off passing itself off as Lestat in that film.
Typo = Not building us, the t got cut off somehow.
Lestat begins as the antagonist in Interview with the vampire but once you read his side of things in The Vampire Lestat he fast becomes the hero.
I have a huge fangirl crush on Lestat, and I despise Queen of the Damned. The whole time I was watching that, I was like “what the hell?”
The Twilight books are awful! I barely made it through the first book, and now my friends are all pressuring me to read the rest. Edward and Bella are the most boring, suckish, two dimensional characters ever!
I’m so relieved to find out that I’m not the only one who didn’t like it! I’m so sick of listening to people gush over these books! Give me Ann Rice, and tie that hack Stephanie Meyer’s hands behind her back, and throw her in a river!
Wow, I just let my violent side out. I don’t do it very often… scary.
Jake, please figure out how to give us a forum! I can’t imagine you’re too thrilled with all these posts on your blog!
Regarding Twilight….No comment please.
Jake, are you going to post again soon. Pleeease? It’s so much fun reading what you post.
Goblinize me!,
it’s ok if you like/love Twilight, we’re not gonna burn you at the stake for it
hell, i used to like them a lot too, before i realized that they’re really not all that great (for an awesome romance, i’d recommend Pride and Prejudice, that’s some good literature right there) now i have all four books taking up space on my shelf >_<
we have the DVD of Interview With A Vampire, so im going to try and get around to watching it sometime….is it really violent? some violence, like Sweeney Todd and Sleepy Hollow, i’m ok with, but other R-rated films make me uneasy about what’s coming
I second that, please post again soon! Some more teasers would be cool *hint hint*
Interview with the vampire is less violent than Sweeney Todd and I’d say about evenly violent with Sleepy Hollow. It’s pretty tame compared to most vampire films. It’s an intellectual’s vampire film. Watch Lestat (Tom Cruise’s character) carefully. There are subtle hints to his own side of things. He’s not as bad as Louis’s narrations make him seem. They did an excellent job at hinting at this for fans of the novel The Vampire Lestat.
There are two brief nude scenes which are the real reason it has an R rating. The first is when the child vampire sees a woman bathing and wishes she could look like that. The other is a roughly two minutes (though it feels longer) scene in which a woman is killed on a stage. These are easy to fast forward.
Oh dear… Go out of town for a week and look what happens. @_@ from 100 posts to 170… and now Stephanie Meyers debate! I really need to post more often, don’t I?
Incidentally, when I was at the American Library Association show last year, there was a booth giving out buttons saying “Team Edward” and “Team Jake.” I picked up one of the latter, naturally, but had now idea what they referred to. Amazing how a publishing phenomenon can exist just off the “mainstream” radar for so long!
Wow, the “Team Jake” button makes me want to form some sort of super-league of Fan Girls (”Team Jake powers activate! Form of…!)
I’m not sure what each of our super-powers could be, but we’ve obviously got the collective power of spamming the heck out of Jake’s blog (”By your powers combine, I am Captain Jake!”)
Burn me at the stake? Geez, what is with people who don’t like Stephanie Meyers and threatening me with bodily harm? Just joking.
Ha, ha, ha! I am a member of Team Jake! Watch my pathetic attempts to theorize! We shall bring power to Lord Jake and he shall overthrow the world with his creative skills and evil laughter!
LOL, dare to be different, Gobblinize me!
I am a proud member of Team Jake! OMG, Kristi, your post made me laugh so hard. I suddenly had this vision of Jake with blue skin, and a green mullet. Then I had a vision of Jareth with said blue skin and green mullet, at which point I decided to put down the wine cooler… LOL!
Someone’s been watching Velvet Goldmine…
Umm… Did I just make a reference to something?
What exactly is Velvet Goldmine?
JAKE! *pokes you constantly* Build us a forum so that you can talk to us and we can have fun little discussions and what not, and you can be in on this.
I’m a poster on ONTD_Twatlight on LJ. It’s so amazing. It’s a group of nearly 1,000 people who hate Twilight or just… well, don’t like it. I started reading that crap, but Bella was a whiny tramp that deserved to die! And Edward was a horrible influence for teenage girls. Jake is the only character with, well, character! So, I’d probably be on Team Jacob.
To other matters: Rocky Horror – they’re making that awful remake still! There is a petition going around, but I don’t think that’ll do much of anything. But, I hope it shows MTV that it doesn’t need to be made.
Jake, do you have anything interesting to share about life outside of the internet? Or perhaps some Labyrinth like news?
I got a question Jake – what character do you like writing for the most? Do you go through a lot of drafts when you write what they have to say?
Ahh… I am so sick of the freaking remakes! For the love of crap Hollywood, think of something original!
‘Umm… Did I just make a reference to something?
What exactly is Velvet Goldmine?’
Velvet Goldmine, in 1999 a ‘fictionalized’ version of David Bowie’s life story was made into a film called Velvet Goldmine (named after an obscure David Bowie song). They changed the names of all the characters as to make it seem like a work of fiction but it was definitely Bowie’s life through the seventies. Jonathan Rhys Meyers played Brian (based on Bowie) and Ewan McGragor played Curt Wilde (based on Iggy Pop). Anyway, all they really change is that the famous red Ziggy Stardust Mullet is now blue. And there’s a scene near the end where he’s in glittering green make up.
There’s also Boz, the character Bowie played for a video game released that same year. He looked a lot like what you described.
‘I’m a poster on ONTD_Twatlight on LJ. It’s so amazing.’
Funny you should mention Live Journal. Last night I had the WORST experience I have ever had on livejournal in my life. I joined a group for Harry Dresden / Bob Slash fan fiction of The Dresden Files TV series. Nothing really graphic, just stuff that implies that they were more than just friends (in the show they really are just friends). And I’d been lurking there for quite a while when I saw someone posted a fan fiction very similiar to one I had posted on another forum. I’m not easily offended by immitation or borrowed ideas. I’m pretty laid back about that. So I decided I might as well post my own story which was extremely similar and a few others. I followed all their rules and guide lines carefully (Something I admittedly tend to not do so this was a real effort for me). I posted seven short fictions that night. Next thing I knew I had a nasty, nasty E-mail from ‘the mods’ (They spoke as one like The Borg on Star Trek). And ‘they’ said that I was spamming the group so they were going to delete ALL of my fiction. When I replied telling them that I hadn’t realized there was a posting limit they said that there technically isn’t one but they also felt my fictions were not on theme. And it’s a one strike you’re out policy. ‘In twenty four hours we’ll decide your fate when we have cooler heads.’ They also told me to not try to turn them against each other and the deleting of my fictions was a ‘group effort’ of the mods. I was like: ‘Woah! When did I try to turn you against each other?’ Also considering that my fictions hadn’t been up long enough to have actually been read AND considering my stories were extremely similar to ones that I’d seen their regulars posted I realized there was definite favourtism going on.
I chose to leave rather than wait to find out my sentence for being a n00b. I went through extreme efforts to try to follow their rules, including learning the obnoxious cutting and HTML codes for livejournal (which I hate) only for fictions that took me days to write to be called spam and deleted within five minutes of being posted! I’m pretty well known in the Dresden Files TV show fan communities and I had NEVER, EVER been treated so poorly by any of them in my life. I was actually really hurt. Every Dresden fan I spoke to about it told me that they felt I had stumbled into a clique that probably felt threatened by my presence.
Sorry to rant about that but I felt like venting and I’m very caffeinated right now.
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‘To other matters: Rocky Horror – they’re making that awful remake still! There is a petition going around, but I don’t think that’ll do much of anything. But, I hope it shows MTV that it doesn’t need to be made.’
I wince every time I hear about this… It’s one thing to have a new cast for the Broadway revivals (Terrence Mann was fantastic as Dr. Frank and Daphne Rubin Vega as Magenta… Wow!) but to redo the movie… NO!
Oh, I see.
I may just have to watch that!
Okay, okay, I’ll post again. But I warn you, there is no talk of goblins or vampire boys.
Oh, sure. Spoil all our fun.
But… Jake? You know you *want* to talk of vampire boys and goblins! It’s so… you!
Anyway, I’ll go read your newest entry.
So long to wait for one book of manga…I might need to write another fan fic to keep myself from going nuts.
nice cover
Ok…this is just my crazy addition to the other theories whizzing about the room. I think Jareth asked Mizumi to create the ablation to make Sarah forget her childhood fantasies because she’s pulling him into her dreams (reference the first scene in book 2 when Jareth slumps against the door in his room and says “Sarah, what do you want from me?”. It seems that her memories and desires are draining Jareth of his power since he has no power over her. So he creates the ablation as a temporary patch for him to use his powers (or perhaps it’s just to slow the loss of said powers) and to figure out a way to get Sarah to love him so he can get his magic back so he can be his normal, swaggering, glittery self. He dumps Moppet because she’s not really useful to him in her current form and he may have played with her as getting insight to Sarah’s wants in a lover.
That’s my 2 cents. I may as well wait until the 12th for the book to come out, but even then all the answers are probably in volume 4. Volume 3 will end up asking more questions.
Ooooo the suspence!